Officer Casualty Sheet: John Frane, Lt. Regiment 39, Arm, Infantry, casualty, Killed at Deep run Va.. 16th of August , 1864
Frane Family History by Anna Eyster Frane and Read to Her Children on her 80th Birthday: "At the beginning of the Civil War, John [Frane] enlisted in company d of the 39th Illinois volunteers and served for 3 years. He returned in 1864 to see his family and was killed at a bridge at Deep Bottom, Virginia, September 14, 1864, [Records show August 16, 1864.].while leading an attack against the enemy, hit by the bullets of three sharpshooters, any one of which would have been fatal. He was buried by the enemy under a big tree and his grave marked. He was a Mason, which accounts for his honorable burial."